S.H.A.M.E

                             S.H.A.M.E

          A rose is a rose.  A rose by whatever name is smelt as fragrant (Shakespeare).

          Corruption is corruption.  Corruption by whatever term, whatever make-up and mark-up is smelt as stinking.  When rotten and idiotic government officers / officials engaged in corruption and collusion, when they paid the goods 100%+, 1000%+, 2000% + more than the market price, the officers !!!! from MACC (Malaysian Anti-corruption and Commission) jumped out to protect them.  I don’t know what Najib thinks about it.  They played ignorant saying that they only paid high prices for the goods and it was not corruption.   Alamak! What a curse! What a pity!  What a shame!

          I wonder if they bought the products for themselves using their own money, would they want to pay so much? 

          MACC, sorrylah, good-for-nothing  in my eye and heart is as dead as ????  It has been rebranded but it remains the same helplessly manipulated by the BN political thugs.  Najib wants transformation  but I see him fail one by one.  We only see him turning round and round for nothing. 

         It is impossible to transform in deeds as he cannot change the corrupt BN ministers for clean ones.  It is impossible to undo the political consortiums who catch hold of the most resources of the country.  We are also in doubt of his ‘cleanliness’ (free from any business of corruption and collusion).

          I don’t know what he thinks about the misbehaviours of that UMNO woman minister, Shahrihzat and her family being so abusive with the funds allocated for rearing cattle for buying luxurious apartments. 

          Shahrihzat still dared to behave so aggressively to speak so well of herself and lacks of any sense of shame.  She has been bred in conducive corrupt environment stinking with rottenness to distinguish stink from fragrance.

          If it is not wrong to abuse the funds allocated for rearing cattle to buy luxurious apartments, what wrong for those who sell the subsidised petrol, fertiliser, pesticide, ………for quick cash?  People want justice to be done accordingly but ………

When people shunned Shahrihzat in 308, Najib, stupidly used her against the people’s wish,  when people shunned ex-chief minister of Penang Koh Zi Keng, Najib, stupidly used him, ………..  How can Najib transform with the persons whom people shun and feel disgusted.  Najib who heads the train of coach laden with so many bad records, only gain the support from interest groups and ignorant ones.  At least 70 people feel ashamed of Najib and his corrupt ministers.

          We people know it is impossible x impossible to transform when the country is headed with the indulgent, rotten and corrupt leaders.  You may boast in different wide coverage of mass media to blow your own trumpet but you cannot change the view of the adamants who see through and know the real problems and issues in the country.

          We people No. 1 enemy is corruption and collusion and how can Najib and his corrupt ministers deal with this menace.  In short, how can a doctor critically ill with an advanced stage of cancer treat himself?  Tell us how?  Tell us how Najib is going to deal with Shahrihzat?  Tell us how Najib is going to deal with those corrupt and idiotic government officers / officials who play ignorant paying 100%+ to 2000% + above the market price for the goods?  Corruption and collusion are so rampant in Malaysia and how is Najib going to deal with the menace?  Taib Mahmud, the chief minister of Sarawak  is the most corrupt and rotten person in the whole-wide Malaysia, and how can we expect him to be charged when MACC is dead.

          We people believe in PR government to deal with the BN corrupt leaders including Dr Mahaktir who is the culprit as he created the conducive environment for corruption and collusion.

Reactions to "Review teaching of English"

Reactions to “Reviewing teaching of English”  (7 August, 2011  The Borneo post)

How the national education system involving 13 years with 5 years of secondary school, is still unable to provide our students with a good grasp of the English Language, I,  myself, am incapable of answering.--- Muhyddin Yassin, Deputy Prime Minister.  (an idiot’s words)

          We people have no one to blame but the Ministry of Education led by ambitious muddled-headed political thugs who are aggressive, arrogant,  ignorant and power-lust and know ‘nuts’ about education but wield the power to meddle everything in it.  In short, our education is pawned by these political thugs who always dominate the scenario.  We have so many education-based professionals and why are they not in arena to make wise and meticulous decision on the subject matter called ‘education’.

          Yes, it is the change of the medium of education from English to BM in 1980s and we see the drop of English standard of our education system all the time.  It has deteriorated so much so that it is poor (not rich) now.  Very often we can describe it to be atrociously poor.  95% of Malaysians whose English after that big shift have no standard to refer to.  They are not proficient at all in terms of their grasp of English grammar, the sound system, pronunciation, stock of vocabulary and spelling. 

          Now let’s refer to Noam Chomsky’s definition of Competence and Performance.  According to Noam Chomsky, “Competence is what native speakers possess which enables them to produce and understand sentences.  Performance is the individual use of the knowledge in an act of communication, producing and understanding sentences”

(HBEL3203  TEACHING OF GRAMMAR) (a subject module from Open University, Malaysia)

          Well, 13 years of English learning seems to “end up in a drain”.  Why?  Ask around.  Do the survey to find out the truths.  Here I have some questions for your questionnaires.  Ask…………………………….

          1.  if they have a good grasp of English grammar.

               It is the foundation of a language and without it, our learners cannot fulfil

               the various tasks in the output in speaking and writing properly.           Nobody

               has the patient to listen or read the report full of grammatical

               mistakes no matter how brilliant his ideas are.

2.  if they have a good knowledge of the English sound system,

              pronunciation and spelling.

              Find out if it is true that we can only remember English words when we

              know how to pronounce them.

          3.  if they have a rich stock of vocabulary through reading intensively and   

               extensively to build up.

              There must be enough input through listening activities and reading texts in

               English before you can expect the output in the production of the language

               in speaking and writing.  I am totally convinced in Input-

               Output theory which has been well-researched by the linguists in language

               learning.    

         

Input            = listening and reading

                             Output          = speaking and writing

          4.  Ask yourselves if you have a good English programme for teaching and

              learning            

          5.  if you have a long lists of graded English books to read and complete in the

              13 years of formal English learning in school. 

            

            Make learners in each grade to read at least 30 books in a year.

         

          What happens now is “a mad rat race” for As results.  Nobody cares how the As results are attained as everybody only focuses on the As.  Hence everybody is impatient with the process of proper teaching and learning of English.  Believe me, many and many schools as far as I know rely heavy on commercially produced workbooks which is compiled in test mode to ‘learn’ English.  Go around to check and see.  Hence what our students know  is fragment pieces of this and that.  They do not learn English in a systematic way.  They have failed to have a good grasp of English grammar and a good knowledge of English sound system.  This is the consequences of the short-cut for ‘As’ which our Ministry of education emphasises a lot for the awards of scholarship.

          Is it clear now who should be accountable for overall poor English standard prevailing in our country?

                                                                                      Morninglory

                                                                                      24/8/2011

The Sign Language from the Queen

          The Sign Language from the Queen
         We had the Bersih 2.0 Rally on 709 and quite a number of people in Yellow shirt emblazoned with the word ‘Bersih’ were arrested.  It is indeed very stupid of Najib to allow such an act to take place when he has advocated so much in paper, posters and banners that he claims “People first!”.  Arh!  It is in words only but fails totally to prove in actions, not knowing that he makes a fool of himself.  It is very very silly of Najib to deny the people to hold their gathering at the Merdeka Stadium with  the Sultan’s suggestion.  Alamak!  What a curse!  What a pity!  What a shame. 

          It is fatal to refuse to face the truth and reality when people request for clean and fair election.  The past elections either state or national,  have been so dirty and unfair.  Hence we have witnessed rampant votes buying.  Thus we face a very corrupt system of government who plunder and squander the resources of the country for self gain and interest.  We people want a genuine democratic country truly “by the people, for the people and of the people” in words and in deeds for the good and benefit of everyone. 

          We people see and record in our hearts and we associate the case of Atlantuya and the transaction of submarine with Najib whom we believe is so so dirty.

          A day or two after, he had an appointment with Queen Elizabeth of England, our past-colonial power who received him and his wife in Yellow attire.  Some people said she also received them with a big vase of Yellow flowers.  Najib in his usual attire, a pair of dark trousers, a white shirt with a tie and a dark overcoat whereas his wife, Rosmah in her usual attire, baju kurung but blue in colour standing beside him. 

Najib, no doubt, looked like a fool in the Queen’s presence whom I believe purportedly put on the Yellow attire and had a vase of Yellow flowers in the hall.  This is the first time I saw the Queen in Yellow attire.  This is, no doubt, a stroke that she hit right on Najib’s buttock to remind him  that he has disgraced the goddess of democracy.

          This scenario, for sure, made many and many people like me rolling on the floor with their legs dancing in the air laughing their hearts out.  It is really amusing.

          The world is no longer the same as 50s years ago.  We have reached the level of civilisation when we have the universal values to  upkeep and refer to.  It is disgraceful to become so phobic to see people in Yellow T-shirt with the word ‘Bersih 2.o’.   It is really and really ridiculous to waste time chasing and catching people wearing Yellow T-shirt with the word ‘Bersih’ as the act only tells the world how dirty and childish the BN government is. 

          Many people like me will not dare to wear Yellow T with Bersih 2.0 but we wear it in our hearts and I might custom-made an Yellow attire like Queen Elizabeth to wear occasionally.  I have never had attires all yellow, green, blue, red, pink, orange or purple when I am old enough to choose.   I never like the colour Yellow which I only wore once when my grandmother passed away in the funeral ceremony.  It is the Chinese custom that only the sons’ children wear yellow attire in the ceremony when the grandparents (father’s parents) passed away.  Yellow is a special colour in the funeral ceremony for the Chinese.  Believe me, very few Chinese will opt for this colour to wear. In future, we may see more and more people wearing T-shirts in yellow colour.

Rationalisation should start with Najib and Muhyddin

Rationalisation should start from……

It is reported that the official residence of Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister each spend RM3.4 million a year for the household expenses!  RM3.4 million X 2 = RM6.8 million.  It is enough to pay for 20 houses costing RM340, 000 in a year.  What a waste!  It is blatantly abusive.  I think Najib and Muhyddin should explain why they should need so much money for their official residences.  Is it true that they each pay RM32,789 and 76 cents, for water ; RM171,131 and 14 cents for electricity (a month, not a year)…………  I hope Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission would investigate their expenditures.  (My family spends about RM15 for water and about RM150 for electricity.)   Najib’s household spends 2185 times more than ours for water and 1141 times more than ours in electricity.  Alamak! What a curse! What a shame!

          It is no doubt shocking to hear that the astronomical amount paid for household expenditure of PM and DPM when a lot of the people in Malaysia survive on meagre income.  Many people do not have decent living conditions.  People say the BN government are really corrupt.  I say it is beyond doubt.  Just count on the allocation to the various government agencies and how these high ranking officers swindle the money by hook or by crook.  

          It is not surprising at all to have the cases of a police dog that  cost RM 2000  but was credited as 30,000; a computer that cost RM 2500 but accounted at RM20,000;  the lists of abuse just go endless.  I believe we have endless records of these abuses.  These abuses are repeated every year.  No concrete actions have been taken so far to curb them, so, we are sorry to tell you that we want to ‘flush’ you out like how we flush the toilet.  It is too much. 

          We can understand why it is impossible X n for Najib to eradicate corruption and collusion in the country when the heads are all so corrupt themselves.  What we see daily is the show of big thieves catching the small thieves.

          Then we see Satu Malaysia this and Satu Malaysia that and how you squander taxpayers’ money on those useless things to fool people around.   Adding up all the money wasted on Satu Malaysia is enough to upgrade a road of X kilometres.  We do not need all these rubbishes to become Satu.  What we people need is the government who is able to deliver in terms of good road system, public transport,  education,  drainage system (being a country with heavy rainfall), medical service, job opportunities……….

          Now C2 fishing boat operators are being operated on in rationalisation.  We people will face even more expensive fishes like mackerel, groupers, snappers, pomfrets, …………. Mind you, we are very very angry and frustrated already.  We all see this blatantly unfair.  Scrapping off C2 fishing boat diesel subsidy is just like

pushing these fishermen off the cliffs to death.

          As far as Sarawak is concerned, due to the rampant corruption and collusion, fishing boat licences are sold at exorbitant price by Taib Mahmud and his regime.  It has been rumoured that the ministers earn RM5000 a month for renting out a licence.

It is reported that about 289 foreign fishing boats registered as local fishing boats are operating in Sarawak waters.  The fishes of good quality are transported to their  mother countries and resold again to us.  Is it not ridiculous?  Hence we despise and feel really disgusted towards the BN government for all these selfish practices for their self-interest and gain only. 

          We hope MACC will continue the probe of Taib Mahmud and his regime.  We all believe that he has amassed US80 billion through all kinds of corruption and collusion.

We really hope that some justice will be done so that we can have the money back to develop and upgrade the infrastructure facilities in Sarawak.

Licence for sand dredging

Licence for sand dredging

We all know the construction industry  needs sand for many purposes.  I wonder why our BN government is not willing to issue licences for sand dredging.  I have read about an operator in Sibu who wanted to renew his licence but he was rejected.  I am not very sure about the exact reason(s) for his failure to get his licence renewed. 

          But I know Taib Mahmud and his cronies are in control of almost everything in Sarawak for themselves.  It is the government “by, for of”  Taib Mahmud and his cronies at the expense of Sarawakians.  It is an open secret that every licence of big operations issued required ‘a big sum of under-table $’.  I don’t know why Taib Mahmud and his cronies are not investigated at all by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) at all.

          By the words of mouth, I heard that Taib Mahmud and his family and his cronies have a cement manufacturing factory which requires a constant feeding of good sand.  Jabu and his family have the company sole right for dredging sand at will.  I hope they will prove to us that all these rumours are not true.  From here, I infer that it is the conflict of interest between these political thugs and the people.  This is the real cause of  problems when these political thugs abuse their power in collusion and when everything is “Me first!”  This is what has been happening since time immemorial in Sarawak.

          It is not surprising that We Sibu / Sarawak often face cement shortage for the good reason that Taib Mahmud’s cement manufacturing company enjoy the monopoly of cement manufacturing for export and to hike the price at will locally.   This practice of Win-Loss has been going on since time immemorial.  That is why we all believe that Taib Mahmud has US80+ billion in his possession.  I have read an article that his eldest son who has just divorced with his first wife owns 17 expensive cars, 1000+ acres / hectares of land in Sarawak,…………  alamak!!!!  I don’t know whether Sarawakians are as shocked by this news as many were shocked to know that Ferdinand Marcos’ wife owned 300 expensive shoes and a lot of jewellery at the expense of Filipinos about 20s years ago.

          We have such a long river like the Rejang River and it is heavily silted at many places and I see it no reason why the applicants are rejected for renewal or  new licences to do the dredging.   I just cannot understand why the construction industry faces the problem of cement shortage all the time.  I always attribute the problem to corruption and collusion to create the shortage to hike the price for their own benefits.

          It is not hard for me to understand why the political thugs like Tengah Ali, James Masing, ……. are ever ready to pound on those who criticise Taib Mahmud.  He gives me the impression that he not only controls all the resources in Sarawak but also controls every of his subordinates.  He is just like Czar in old Russia.  He is like an emperor in old China. 

          We are not only facing the shortage of sand, we are also facing the shortage of timber for our local furniture manufacturing factories despite the fact that Sarawak is bestowed with the timber in abundance.  Now we Sarawakians face the curse of Taib Mahmud and his cronies to face these problems.  The real cause of the problem is corruption and collusion in different transaction all to their advantages and their self-interest.

          We should rally as many Sarawakians as possible to flush them out as soon as possible either through voting or …………….

                                                                                      Labahua. 9/6/2011

沉醉在霸 权 独 裁运 做 中

沉醉在霸 权 独 裁运 做 中

黄顺舸的经典 名言绝句：“朝中有人，好做事“。不知咱们人民对他这句话已 恶 （口左镑） 心 到要 吐。这句话充满着耍 弄 霸 权 独 裁 臭 玩 咱们人民玩味儿。这句话分明也充满 着搞人 脉 谈 关系。以[霸 权 独 裁 者 身 份 为 本] 来告知天下 务必要选我党代表，不然，你们要求无法传达，嘿。。。。。后果自负。真是无 知的可怕。不知道反民主 轨道者统统 会被冲洗掉。（They will be flushed out like how we flush our toilets each time when we pass out the body waste.） 这就是不懂觉悟者的悲残下场。嘿。。。。。这叫做自 食其果。怪不得别人。

          什么“朝中有人，好做事“!

          我说：官位大于天，个人利益摆中间，霸 权 独 裁好运作，个人好处数不清。

这53/ 47 在霸 道 独 裁运作下， 各个BN 人民代表U转做独裁代表。因此黄顺舸很享受这经典 名言绝句。 已往这经典 名言绝句是他通向州内阁的附身符，非常灵异。 所以他才会如此重复再重复又重复。。。。。。。。。。。。。不能自拔。

          张 泰卿 才会说出如此独 裁霸 道的言语。

          他吠叫说：416，3 个人联代表落马Sibu 五年会损失RM1500万。Alamak! 这么如此独 裁霸 道的言语，既然在 民主宪法下，这些政棍 口不遮 拦，口若县河滔滔不绝，如 注灌处， 悲也。独 裁霸 道惯了，因此才会如此开口闭口耍霸权。难怪416个个会‘死’的那么惨。 第13 届国选肯定会的‘死’的更惨。咱们人民，尤其是华人，80% 已经达到共识：改朝换代

                   支持独 裁霸 道，贪污舞弊滥权腐败（#$&*）投国阵

                   重建民主，廉洁政府，投民联。

                   两线党 制肩并肩，肯定护航民主在其间。

                   民主才会有民权，民有和民享。

          308 后，霸 权 独 裁 的运作已玩完了。可是，Wong Soon Koh and Tiong Thai King 还是沉醉在其 中，不能自己。“中东茉反抗“:  Ben Ali in Tunisia 倒了, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt 倒了, Muammar Gaddafi in Libya血战抗拒。自己“注定” 会死的极难看。另一新的两线制民主时代已开始，霸 权 独 裁的 国家会一个接一个倒下，等着瞧！当我看到160+ Nepal 皇朝被人民推翻时，我知道时代不一样了。 UMNO 领袖最最爱喊特权。他们凭什么要特权？在民主国度里，法侓面前，人人平等。靠本事，费精神， 才有机会获得自己应得的特权。像璧球公主Nicole David, 羽球公子Lee Chung Wei，有 做 为的企业家，。。。。。。想靠肤色争取特权 时代已结束了。

          砂州520警钟，308 海啸，砂卅416 [大红花 革 命]的脚步已逼向[砂宫]。 这些政棍还是沉醉在霸 权 独 裁运 做 中，没有感受也没有意识。是呀，‘棺材’没有摆在他们跟前，他们不会相信自己已‘死’定了。

牵牛花             25/5/2011

Hibiscus Revolt to re-establish democracy in Sarawak

    Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah barks saying, “Siah has crossed the red line.”

I say, “Well……..if Siah has crossed the red line, Taib Mahmud and his regime have transgressed even more.”  I don’t know how many times Abdul Karim has barked saying it is we Sarawakians who entrusted Taib Mahmud the mandate to be the Chief Minister of Sarawak.  But what is truer is that Taib Mahmud and his cronies have been by hook  or by crook fouling Sarawakians.  It is a lot of vote buying.   Please prove to us that it is not.  Taib Mahmud and his cronies have always tried all means to get the votes from the ignorant, hungry  and poor people (Ah Gou and Ah Mao).

I can provide enough evidence through my own witnesses and friends.

Not long ago, James Masing just this bloody political thug showed it openly, not knowing that it is an abuse of power to reward those long houses voting for him and his parties a sum of money.

Recently at Bawang Assam in just concluded the 10 state election, the transactions of voting buying for Wong Soon Koh have taken place.

         

                    Vote for me to get RM500

                   To register with your Identity card to get RM 100 first

                   If I won, come and claim RM400.

There are a lot more proofs of these vote buying cases by Taib Mahmud and his cronies that have been taking place since time immemorial. 

Taib Mahmud is cunningly smart and thus he can wield the power for 30+ years.  It is no myth to stay in power for so long if it is not because of his bloody manipulation of the situation.  He amassed astronomical wealth at the expense of us Sarawakians.  It is rife with rumour that he amassed over US80 billion.  Ferdinad Marcos amassed US65 billion in his 20s in reign of the Philippines, Suharto US?? Billion in his 32 years reign of Indonesia; Ben Ali 35billion in pounds; Hosni Mubarak US70billion; Muammar Gaddafi US150;Ting Siu Bian, ex-premier of Taiwan ??billion ………. But Ting Siu Bian has poured out what he swallowed during his 8 years in office.  We want Taib Mahmud and his cronies to pour out what they have swallowed one day.

If it had not been done through vote buying to lure Ah Gou and Ah Mao, he would not have won.   Besides, the constituencies have been unfairly demarcated in favour of Taib Mahmud and his cronies.  How can you say that 45% of the vote for the PR coalition and yet the BN government led by Taib Mahmud and his cronies still can garnered 51 seats out of 71.  It is blatantly injustice and unfair in practice. 

Mind you we are prepared to fight for our justice for the true god of democracy to death to defend her.  What Taib Mahmud and his cronies practise now is the true characteristics of totalitarian, autocracy and nepotism.  It is an every act of despotic.  Otherwise Taib Mahmud and his cronies will not amass so much wealth at the expense of us Sarawakians.  We are plighted with poor amenities: poor road conditions, poor drainage system, poor education, poor medical services,……… Many Sarawakians still do not have the supply of electricity and water supply.

We Sarawakians are prepared to start “Hibiscus Revolt” at any time.  Please be prepared to face the change of government and pour out what you have swallowed